he left a sharecropper town in -- and went to washington, d.c. my dad, i used to think about that, too. he left texas and went to los angeles. in my family that was unheard of. in my family you stayed right there on the farm. you could put a trailer on the land but you don't go. in that case my grandfather is not coming there to visit you. you have to make a big step. so i made this step and now i'm here and i've set up a life for him and he goes and starts to confront these things and i'm thinking, hey, stop, you can be okay. you can have education and family, you can have a wife and a home. he's like "no, dad, everybody deserves a life, everybody deserves a home. i can't be happy inside myself unless i know the rights are there." so then we explore the civil rights movement in the personal way. that's what's brilliant about what you did, lee. i'm always arguing and dealing with him over the real moments of history that, like give us an emotional understanding of the civil rights movement, of what's happening. and that's kind of a movement of ou